What did you think of the book?

[Karen]

Marc wrote: "Try this re Teddy Boys

http://edwardianteddyboy.com/page2.htm

Bit before my time although they underwent a renaissance in the late 1970s around the time of the Queen's Silver Jubilee (50 years on..."

*blush*. Funny, I deleted my question about the Teddy Boys, because I don't know what I googled previously, but a quick search found the site you reference, so I read up, and deleted my dumb question to which the answer is lmgtfy.

[Greg]

I'm 50 pages into this and I'm stunned, it's really, really good!

[Silvi]

I haven't watch the movie, so I can't tell is it better or not. But the book is one of the most strangest books that I have ever read in my life. In spite that from time to time I didn't understood the book, I liked it. But I think that the final is not my final definitely. I thought that Alex will change his life and will learn his lesson, but obviously this is not the idea.

[B]

The latest comment came at an opportune moment for me, at least the email announcement of it. I was just recently thinking about the differences between the book and film as regards Alex's encounter with the cat lady. In the book, he's distracted by a bust of Beethoven while the cat lady attacks with a stick, in the film it appears the cat lady is swinging a bust of Beethoven at him while he wields a giant penis. I not be sure it actually was a Beethoven bust, though.